It's that time again -- be sure to save Sunday, Sept. 17, for the annual Victorian Fair, featuring some 200 booths and about the same number of youngsters providing an afternoon of ongoing entertainment. There's even a road race, and a parade for the little ones. The fair opens at 11:30 and runs to 5:00.

Published the first Friday of each month by the SilverStringers of Melrose, Massachusetts -- September 1, 2006

On this fifth anniversary of 9/11, the Melrose Elks -- now celebrating their 100th year in our town -- received a gift of two American Flags, one marked with the names of all those who lost their lives in that tragedy, and a second inscribed with those emergency personnel who died trying to save others. Taking part in this recreation of the ceremony are, from the left, Marie Ryan, State past president and 53-year member of the Melrose Emblem Club; Ellie Chisholm, Exalted Ruler of Melrose Lodge of Elks, and Kay McCarte of the Melrose SilverStringers